Geoffrey Jones (academic)
| Geoffrey Jones | |
|---|---|
| Born | Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British & American |
| Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Known for | Professor of Business History at Harvard Business School |
| Children | Dylan Jones |
Geoffrey G. Jones is a British-born business historian. He became a U.S. citizen in 2010. He is currently Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at the Harvard Business School. The previous holders of this Chair, which was the first in the world in business history being founded in 1927, included Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. and Thomas K. McCraw.
Jones's works have concentrated on the historical evolution of globalization, international banking and trading, and foreign direct investment by multinationals. He has published histories of Unilever, and has more recently written on the history of sustainable business worldwide. In 2017 he published a historical study of green entrepreneurship from the nineteenth century until the present day called Profits and Sustainability. A History of Green Entrepreneurship (Oxford, 2017)
Born in Birmingham, Jones attended Corpus Christi, Cambridge. After receiving his Phd, he worked there as a research fellow. He then became a lecturer in economic history at the London School of Economics before becoming a professor in business history at the University of Reading. In 1997 he founded the Centre for International Business History at the University of Reading.[ Jones served twice as President of the Association of Business Historians (1992–93 and 2000-1), President of the European Business History Association (1997-1999) and President of the Business History Conference (2001-2002). Between 1988 and 2003 Jones was the co-editor of the journal Business History. In 2002 he moved to Harvard Business School. In 2012 he was appointed Faculty Chair of the Business History Initiative at Harvard Business School. Subsequently, the Business History Initiative developed a project called Creating Emerging Markets, designed to facilitate research and teaching on the business history of emerging markets, which includes interviews with long-time leaders of firms and NGOs in Latin America, South Asia, Turkey and Africa.
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